Our People

Jocelyn Mackies

Jocelyn Mackie MSc, JD
General Counsel & Director of Business Strategy

Jocelyn Mackie provides legal and business strategy advice to Grand Challenges Canada.

Prior to joining the team, Ms. Mackie was a lawyer at a boutique law firm in Toronto focused on innovative industries in the pharmaceutical and technology sectors and she represented
multi-nationals, start-ups as well as not-for-profit organizations. Ms. Mackie’s practice was primarily in intellectual property law, litigation and government relations. She is a member of the Ontario Bar Association and New York State Bar Association. Ms. Mackie has an HBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, a MSc in bioethics and health policy from the University of Toronto and a JD from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Ms. Mackie has particular interest in the role of industry in the developing world and has published in the area.